Stressful Tuesday?
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ”
(Aesop Fables)
I’ve just read an article that claimed that 11.45am on a Tuesday is the most stressful time of the week.
While I may not be posting this on a Tuesday I thought it would be appropriate to share a really useful stress relieving technique for use next week (or if, like me, you have a lovely Tuesday then any other time where it’d be useful)
I know that sometimes you may feel so busy that you may think you haven’t got time to take a few moments for yourself. I would suggest that its those times when you would benefit the most from doing that. Apart from anything else most people work better when they are not highly stressed, so it actually is more productive.
The beauty of this particular technique is that you don’t need any “props”. It just uses your breath.
I invite you to play with the following,
1. Take a slow deep breath in and out as you count one in your head,
2. Take another slow deep breath in and out and count two in your head
3. Repeat counting three in your head, then four in your head etc until you reach ten.
If at any stage you loose count, that’s fine just return to step one. This slows down your breath and as well as being relaxing it calms down the chatter inside your head.
There is little point cheating by counting on your fingers or on paper as then you won’t experience the full benefit.